Associations to the word «Mescaline»

Wiktionary

MESCALINE, noun. A psychedelic drug of the phenethylamine class found naturally in several species of cacti, including peyote Lophophora williamsii, the San Pedro cactus Echinopsis pachanoi, and the Peruvian torch Echinopsis peruviana.

Dictionary definition

MESCALINE, noun. The hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats